Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-12
NEWS NOTES.

Girl Bisrwirth, . native of Germany,
vas yesterday admitted to citizenship.
A false alarm of fire was turned on
this morning at half past two O'Clock
fron Kerckhoff, Gunner L Co.'s lumber
yard.
The woolverines will meet to.mor-
rou. Thursday evening, at the City
Ceuucil chamber to make arrangements
for festival of all Michiganders.
n. w. Putnam, Of San Francisco is
in this city preparing to open an over.
lad excursion Office. His route VIII oe
by the Union Pacific and Erie ROADS.
The complaint against Frank Garcia for
aa.ault with knife upon Alfred Hack,
e Glendale. ON New Years Eve, was
Yesterday dismissed by Justice Austin.
George Douglas will be examined by
Justice Austin tomorrow at P. NJ, on
the charge of having assaulted James
II. Layton with an axe on the 10Th INST.
Douglas il out ON bail.
Hattie NJ. Dubois. colored, was yes
tsrday granted divorce from her hus :
hand Thomas Dubois, also colored, on
the ground of extreme cruelty on the
part of the defendant.
The examination of A. L. Mcdonald,
charged with having assaulted G. d.
Cunningham with q pistol on the ioth
inst. will take place to-day at T. M.
in Justice Taney's Court.
Col. Gray, the builder of the Grand
Opera House of this city, as well as sew
eral other equally attractive places OF
AMUSEMENT in this State, has made plan
fer beautiful opera house at Cotton.
The Mayor yesterday discharged the
Chinamen arrested for violating the fire
ordinances, coaditionally upon their re-
moving the Objectionable sheds. Other.
xise their cash deposit is to be forfeited.
Miss G. B. Playter has complained to
the police that . baggageman to whom
she gave her check for baggage at the
Depot, on Monday, has not brought her
trunk TO her home No. Ill, Hope street.
A petition to Congress is being cir Gu
lated in this city, requesting that the
bill to reduce postage on seeds. scions,
tulbs, and plants by transferring the m
t. third class matter bs passed at an
early date.
The grass sown in the Sixth Street
Park is making an effort to pierce the
soil. City Gardner Legrand is not very
enthusiastic in his hopes that the sward
will be imposing this Spring, unless indi.
cations of rain become more reassuring.
Yesterday morning about five o'clock
a barn in the rear of the old hospital in
6An B Bsrnardino, caught fire and burned
to the ground. The loss will be about
3loO. As the place was the resort of
trsmps it is thought that they caused the
fire.
The Southern Pacific railway COM
pany has purchased all the land now
unoccup pied by that company between
the new depot and the river below the
bluff, for railway purposes. This will
give room for several more tracks for the
company.
The work of opening the old sewer on
Spring street moves very slowly. For
two years the horrid stencil of this
dreadful source Of disease and death has
remained unremoved. There are more
of these sewers on Spring street that
should be closed permanently.
Reyes Moreno, who is accused on the
complaint of Thomas Riley with having
on the 9th of November attempted to
shoot and kill him in the Little Tejungo
Canon, was yesterday examined by
Justice Taney and held to answer on the
charge of assault to murder in the sum
of 5000.